Label: Horn of Plenty

中央に帯を巻き付けた素晴らしい装丁!!A4サイズのリソグラフ・インサート付き!!2016年から停止状態にある個人的激推しカセットレーベル米Vitrineにも音源を残している、ビジュアルアーティスト、画家、実験楽器ビルダー、そしてレーベルCor Ardensも運営する奇才Jim Strong。氏が率いる5~6人組の演奏集団Eyes of the AmaryllisのデビューLP。まるで偶然の機会にたまたま録音をしたかの様な妙な即席具合が面白く、調律の狂った楽器や廃品の数々を曖昧なボーカルと共に並走させるベッドルーム・ジャム。Forlag For Fri Musikファンは是非。









Debut LP from this new Philadelphia four-piece whose members include Siltbreeze, Blackest Ever Black, Vitrine, Cor Ardens, & Kashual Plastik alumni. With one sought-after tape behind them the band attempt a surreal approximation of nice music.

Their general merriment and creative fervour was captured in recordings over a few chance family dinners and channelled through a selection of poorly tuned instruments and detritus.

Songs collapsing into abstraction, or vagueness uniting in melody, Sift captures the moment between one thing ending and another beginning. Teen girlfriends mumbled bedroom jams striking the secret chord. Alchemy from the ashes. The sound of ideas and ideals.

Although conceptually akin to fellow Philadelphian Sun Ra’s Strange Strings, Sift likens to sounds from the early 4AD catalogue, Flying Nun’s slowest hitmakers, or Förlag För Fri Musik’s stock-in-trade.

Presented on black vinyl in a printed disco bag with an A4 riso insert & obi band.